One of the most classic images in rock, Jimi Hendrix setting fire to his guitar is interpreted as many things; a sacrifice to the gods, a symbolic destruction of everything that has gone before. What we do know is that Wild Thing beforehand sounds incredible, too.

It's the most famous heckle in pop music history; a disgruntled fan screams 'Judas' at Bob Dylan in Manchester back in 1966, unhappy at his conversion to the electric guitar. What follows is just as amazing: an incredible version of Like A Rolling Stone.

Baggy Trousers might be quite cheesy these days, but you can't deny Madness' greatest moment certainly gets people moving. So many, in fact, that at this 1992 performance the amount of pogoing caused a recorded earth tremor.

January 1969: The Beatles take to the skies - or the roof of the Apple building - and London stops to watch the likes of Get Back. An often imitated but never bettered stunt, Get Back is the classic track.

'You've yet to have your finest hour'. Queen - and quite possibly Wembley as a concert venue - did in 1985 when Freddie Mercury tore into Radio Ga Ga in front of a massive crowd. A complete lesson in ostentatious stadium rock.

The most anodyne, embarrassing TV interview of all time precedes this performance of My Generation. But The Who were not only taking the piss out of the presenter, they also had a little surprise for the end, where they put three times the amount of explosive they should have in the drum kit…

Noel Gallagher could do with some lessons from Keith Richards about stage invaders. Rather than allow the intruder to get to Jagger and therefore probably stop the song, Richards gets a lot of satisfaction from using his guitar in an unauthorised manner back in 1981.

Remember MTV's Headbanger's Ball? The hard rock show is responsible for one of Guns N'Roses best ever live performances simply because they had to concentrate and be on their best behaviour so they could 'get on the television'. Still right on the limit, though, it's at times (particularly at the start of Nightrain) seconds from falling apart.

This version of Blowing In The Wind was at the end of the Newport Folk Festival 1963; it wasn't just the arrival of Dylan as America's greatest songwriter, but with Joan Baez on backing vocals, it proved he could be beautiful as well as political.

The Fab Four's most famous gig; those New Yorkers really did fancy them didn't they? It's a fantastic clip: not only are they on a tiny stage in the middle of the pitch, but the music was piped through the stadium's PA that you'd normally announce the scores on. Still, these Sixties chicks didn't care.

Very, very classic rock. But the great thing about watching Neil Young's demeanour walking on stage, making grand protestations about this being the greatest day of his life, is being armed with the knowledge that the original film (from Scorsese) has Young stumbling up to the stage with a massive lump of cocaine hanging out of his nose

Obviously in thrall to The Beatles, U2's rooftop performance of their own was still great, traffic-stopping fun. Although you wonder why anyone would want to stop their daily errands to watch a front man in such a bad shirt.

Moscow 1991, and the biggest metal gig of all time - officially 500,000 people but some reckon 1.5million. Anyway, big occasions call for big bands and big songs, and none can match Metallica's Enter Sandman.

Unhappy that they had to mime, Noel Gallagher donned a pair of sunglasses for their Roll With It performance on Top Of The Pops, took on vocal duties, and Liam filled in on guitar. Never go solo Noel, it looks a bit, well, wrong.